From October 2009 the energy resources of Turkmenistan have been in the core of a international polemic whose sources are the Russian newspaper Nezavisemaia Gazeta and the German nongovernmental organization “Eurasia Transition Group”(ETG). The object of this controversy is a British audit relating to the Turkmen gas reserves at Southern Yoloten – Osman field considerated far lower than the estimate contained in this report. Who is right and who is wrong? It’s obviously that the energy question of Turkmenistan is a very complex issue because of the superposition of domestic political factors to the stakes and constraints of regional geopolitics and geo-economics. So, the main question is: does Turkmenistan have the ability to manage these issues and the capacity to exceed its statute of geopolitical pivot by playing like a true geostrategic actor?

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